Congress ‘Get Set Go’ for LS polls in Goa

Panaji: Gearing up for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, AICC president Rahul Gandhi has approved various committees for Goa Congress.

A 16 member Pradesh Election Committee for Goa under chairman PCC president Girish Chodankar is been constituted to shortlist the candidates for the LS polls and to oversee the preparations for the elections. The Committee includes AICC secretary and Goa desk in-charge Dr Chellakumar, AICC leader Amit Deshmukh, Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar amongst others.

Dr Chellakumar will head the Coordination Committee to keep synchronization between the State and Central leadership during the poll period. Deshmukh is appointed as the vice chairman while Chodankar will be the convenor. Committee has six other members including MLAs.

MLA Digamber Kamat is appointed as the chairman while MLA Alexio Reginaldo Lourenco as vice chairman of the election campaign committee which has 23 members on board.

Publicity Committee will be headed by MLA Ravi Naik while spokesperson Sidhnath Buyao is vice chairman.